B
Green Bay Packers
The Packers let Uiagalelei fall and pounced. Final grade: B.
by PackerFanForever ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 6 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: DJ Uiagalelei, pick No. 179, roughly 71 picks past where he belonged.
The Burch reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade. They will regret leaving cornerback for another day if the season turns on it.
The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the cornerback spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 19 they get an anchor for the defensive front, and a steal at that.
Colston Loveland in No. 51 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Dani Dennis-Sutton at the 83rd overall pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Somehow Jay Higgins was still sitting there in slot 115, and they pounced on premier linebacker value. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Sonny Styles is a better player than the 147th pick suggests; smart patience, rewarded. A minor need, but a need all the same.
You do not let a quarterback like DJ Uiagalelei reach pick 179 and blink. They did not. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Jordan Burch in the Round 7 slot, miles early. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.